Follow our guide to growing these beans ... be grown successfully in pots. Sowing seeds indoors gives a faster and more reliable germination rate, particularly for runner beans.

Sow the seeds into individual small pots or module trays containing a Best Buy compost for sowing seeds. The plants will be ready to plant outdoors when they're about two weeks old - don't plant out ...

Sow the seeds into individual small pots or module trays containing a Best Buy compost for sowing seeds. The plants will be ready to plant outdoors when they're about two weeks old - don't plant out ...

Time-lapse footage of runner bean plants growing. They start as seedlings and grow into mature plants with a crop of beans. Watch the clip with the children and make sure that they understand that ...